Prevalence and origin of birefringence in 48 garnets from the pyrope-almandine-grossularite-spessartine quaternary

American Mineralogist

Volumn 83, Issue 11-12 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1293-1301

  Hofmeister, Anne M ^a   Schaal, Rand B ^b   Campbell, Karla R ^b   Berry, Sandra L ^b   Fagan, Timothy J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; MINERALS; SILICON;

COMPOSITION RANGES; GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; INTERNAL FACTORS; INVERSE CORRELATION; OPTICAL ANOMALIES; QUATERNARY SYSTEMS; SHORT RANGE ORDERING; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS;

GARNETS;

ALMANDINE; ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; GARNET; GROSSULARITE; PYROPE;

EID: 0032465237     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1998-11-1218     Document Type: Article

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